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Hurricane Melissa is ‘one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin’

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Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, unleashed "catastrophic winds" and "flash flooding."